Vivek "Vic" Gundotra (born June 14, 1968 in India) is the Senior Vice President, Engineering for Google and was previously the Senior Vice-President of Social Business for the same company. Before joining Google, he was a general manager at Microsoft. VicGundotra Profile, CrunchBase He joined Microsoft in 1991 and eventually became General Manager of Platform Evangelism. His duties included promoting Microsoft's APIs and platforms to independent developers and helping to develop a strategy for Windows Live online services to compete with Google's web-based software applications. Gundotra joined Google in June 2007, after taking a one-year delay working on charitable endeavors due to a Microsoft employee non-compete agreement.

28.10.2009 by PI/New Media "It was clear from user demand the next natural step was to offer turn-by-turn directions," said VicGundotra, Google's vice president of engineering for mobile and developer. "That was what drove this product." ...